The Taste of Seduction

Marcus asked the question that really bugged him immediately. Cole, deeply scared of death, quickly narrated the story of how Diana grew up with a single parent, she and her mum worked odd jobs to get money to survive and also for schooling.

Life became harder for Diana after her mother died of leukemia due to lack of a donor and money, so she had lacked the support of people and relatives growing.

She also missed out on parent love and had no friends due to her busy schedule. By pulling a number of strings, he was able to make her fall in love with him after his organized crime escapade.

Due to her loveless relationship, she had been determined to hold on to him in spite of his abusive acts, taking her money even up to locking out of the apartment at times or inside the closet as punishment.

Marcus, angry at how insensitive, destructive and manipulative Cole had been, slammed his palm on the kitchen sink as he closed his eyes to calm himself down to prevent him from killing Cole. Pacing up and down the small kitchen, Marcus held his fist as he radiated terrifying killing intent.

Cole shuddered at the presence of aura and cowered to the corner, trying to erase his existence from this monster.

"Why did she continue to endure?" Marcus with a solemn voice, his fists remained clenched as he turned his gaze to Cole in the corner.

"As as … as long as I said, I was lea- leaving she would turn and beg me, then we would return to the normal style" he stammered as his eyes looked at the floor avoiding the blood red eyes.

"You do know, you are beast right, manipulating and treating a daughter of Eve like a toy and pleasure item, you deserve to die, but since you answered all I asked you, I will not kill you," Marcus said in one breath as he reigned in his anger to kill the inhumane boyfriend that played his darling like a fiddle.

Dragging Cole by the hair, he pulled into the living room, fished out a book and told him to use bleed himself to write an apology to Diana, telling her he would get out of her life and leave her to Marcus to care for her for the rest of her life.

Cole wavered a bit but seeing Marcus starting to get angry with an intense aura that scared, he quickly shouted, "I will do it, I will write, please don't kill me" while shivering.

After he was done, Cole faced away from Marcus, swearing in his heart to get back at him as long as he got out the tricky situation alive while dealing with Diana, that bitch, for seducing such a strong man.

Marcus knew that Cole was as venomous as a viper and leaving him without punishment that can shake his core would lead to worse consequences in the future, but he kept quiet as he waited for a blood apology to be written. After reading the apology and finding it satisfactory, he growled at Cole, "Get over here,"

Cole in a bid to leave his situation alive, crawled over quickly.

"Look into my eyes," Marcus, as his eyes gleamed with blood red light falling on Cole as he looked into it. A strong wave of despair as he started to shout and as he experienced the power of Marcus's ocular abilities, the eighteen levels of hell. Soiling himself as he experienced all his fears and deepest pains in the depth of his soul within five seconds which felt like to him like a millennium.

Marcus, moving forward, decided to have his blood as a snack sucking until he was half dead. He then carefully wiped out his existence out of Cole's mind to ensure his special identity was not leaked and then proceeded to think of a way to throw him out.

As the night unfolded, Marcus felt it was better to dump Cole into the street like garbage, like a gust of wind, he raced to the next city with his inhumane speed while holding the half-dead delusional Cole and dumped him in the city slums, leaving him to his fate before starting back to his city and apartment all within the dead cover of the night and some hours.

Marcus remained by Diana's side, watching over her as she rested. He knew the trauma she had endured went beyond just physical wounds and understood that she could get better and return to her bright self with a safe space to heal both

physically and emotionally. In the stillness of the night, Marcus couldn't help but reflect on the fragility of human relationships and the depths of suffering that some endure.

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Diana woke up with a mix of emotions, her body still sore from the previous night's ordeal. As she slowly regained consciousness, the memories of the previous night's ordeal flooded her mind, causing her to shudder involuntarily. Her first instinct was to find out where Cole, her now-ex-boyfriend, was.

With a tremor in her voice, Diana mustered the strength to speak, "Marcus, please... I need to know something. Where is Cole? Has he abandoned me or feels like I am too useless? Or has Cole been arrested? Or did he leave me because I managed to be unable to take the beating?"

Confused on what exactly she felt like asking and was starting to seem as though she was losing, Marcus quickly walked to her and held her hands, trying to console her.

"Hey princess, take it easy. Just ask what you want to know one by one?" Marcus chided as he kept a gentle smile on his face.

Taking a deep breath to compose herself, she ask, "Where is Cole?"

Marcus looked her in the eye and averted his eyes after a while, causing her to grow panicky. "Please, Marcus, tell me where Cole is? I have to beg, our relationship can not just end like this? We have been together for a long time and plan to get married next year?"